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Confusion reigns at the French digital music download site. The second page of their press release contains a box of text titled "What is Hi Res Audio?" I hadn't noticed this section of the document until just now. It's indicative of a marketplace that continues to issue contradictory and confusing messaging about Hi Res Audio…in spite of assurances to the contrary.
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One of the largest "high-resolution" music download sites in the world (so they claim) is the French site Qobuz. I had some back and forth with them a year or more over their claim to have a high-resolution catalog available only to discover that they are doing what just about everyone else does.
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Neil Young and Ponomusic announced a software application recently that lets any Pono owner "process" any "high-resolution" tune in their Pono library into a variety of formats and downconversions.
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Many of you have seen/heard me on Scott Wilkinson's excellent webcast "Home Theater Geek", which is part of the twit.tv network of webcasts. I was alerted to another show hosted by the head guy at twit Leo Laporte called Triangulation because Neil Young was the guest. I watched the whole thing late yesterday afternoon. It's time for an update on Pono and the Ponomusic website.
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Yesterday's post presented a few ways that record companies produce and release DSD recordings. You can check out the entire post yourself by clicking here but simply put I laid out two approaches: convert source high-resolution PCM files to DSD through an analog conversion chain (D/A/A) or record directly to DSD and then do multiple conversions in order to mix and process the material in the analog domain. The sonic results of all this bouncing back and forth between analog and digital is a reduction in the fidelity of the ultimate file. Why bother?
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During my discussions with Paul McGowan, we chatted about his PS Records effort and the slicing up of the pie amongst artist, studio, and record label. They intend to retail the new 2-disc high-resolution compilation for almost $40. This makes it a reasonably high priced collection of 10-12 tunes.
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Paul McGowan and I sat in his newish demonstration room last Wednesday and listened to a variety of high-resolution source material. I admit I was anxious to hear some of my favorite 96 kHz/24-bit PCM stereo files through his elaborate, high-end system.
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